Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 7339
ulimit -v doesn't work
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:53 EDT
No matter what options I pass to ulimit -v, I get: ulimit: cannot raise limit: Invalid argument ulimit -AnythingElse appears to work fine. An strace of bash shows 2 getrlimit calls (for RLIMIT_DATA and RLIMIT_STACK), which return 0, but no setrlimit calls. There is a setrlimit call if I do ulimit -m, for example.
Works here... Are you sure you aren't using bash2?
(Sorry for the delay. I didn't get your reply because I ended up with duplicate bugzilla accounts, and my old email address got deleted from the records, so your reply got sent to "disabled". See bug #7338). I'm not using bash2: ~$ bash -version GNU bash, version 1.14.7(1) ~$ ulimit -v 1000000 ulimit: cannot raise limit: Invalid argument An strace of bash from another xterm shows the following: ~$ strace -p7379 read(0, "\r", 1) = 1 write(2, "\n", 1) = 1 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT], [], 8) = 0 ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_START, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 ioctl(0, TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x804bf34, [], 0x4000000}, {0x8088d5c, [], 0x4000000}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x804bb38, [], 0x4000000}, {0x8088d5c, [], 0x4000000}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGWINCH, {SIG_DFL}, {0x8088d00, [], 0x4000000}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x804bf34, [], 0x4000000}, {0x804bf34, [], 0x4000000}, 8) = 0 getrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, {rlim_cur=RLIM_INFINITY, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0 getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, {rlim_cur=8192*1024, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0 write(2, "ulimit: cannot raise limit: Inva"..., 45) = 45 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x804bf34, [], 0x4000000}, {0x804bf34, [], 0x4000000}, 8) = 0 time(NULL) = 948889516 geteuid() = 500 geteuid() = 500 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD TTOU], [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD TSTP TTIN TTOU], [], 8) = 0 ioctl(255, TIOCSPGRP, [7379]) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x804bf34, [], 0x4000000}, {0x804bf34, [], 0x4000000}, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT], [], 8) = 0 ioctl(0, TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_START, {B38400 opost isig -icanon -echo ...}) = 0 ioctl(0, TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig -icanon -echo ...}) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8088d5c, [], 0x4000000}, {0x804bf34, [], 0x4000000}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x8088d5c, [], 0x4000000}, {0x804bb38, [], 0x4000000}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGWINCH, {0x8088d00, [], 0x4000000}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 write(2, "~$ ", 3) = 3